Dungeons & Dragons Had Its Best Year Ever In 2020
Wizards of the Coast announces that Dungeons & Dragons had its best-ever year of sales in 2020, topping the record set in 2019.
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Wizards of the Coast has revealed that 2020 was Dungeons & Dragons’ best ever year in the franchise’s history. This tops the sales figures from 2019, which was previously the best year in the history of D&D.
2020 saw a massive sales boost for some parts of the entertainment history, as the pandemic meant that many people had to stay home, leaving them starved for entertainment. The tabletop RPG industry might seem as if it would be adversely affected by this, as the games are social experiences. Games like D&D were able to continue online, as many people moved to streaming games and playing virtually. Wizards of the Coast encouraged this, offering free content as part of the Stay at Home, Play at Home initiative.
The pandemic has done little to slow the growing interest in D&D around the world. According to Wizards of the Coast, 2020 was the best year in the history of the franchise, beating out 2019. There are more than 50 million D&D players around the world, with the company seeing +33% global growth year-on-year. March 2020 saw the all-time peak for online searches related to the game, which makes sense, considering everything that was happening at the time. The age demographic of the game is split fairly evenly among the age groups, with the 20-24 range having the highest number of players, at 24%. The gender split is now 40% women, 60% men, >0% non-binary/other, which means more women play D&D than ever before.
The biggest success of 2020 was Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, which was the most pre-ordered D&D book of all time, and hit several best-seller lists. There has also been an increase in people wanting to take up the screen and become DMs, with sales of the Dungeons Master’s Guide and the Monster Manual growing each year. D&D is also seeing increased interest on streaming platforms, with D&D Live 2020 receiving over four million views, and #dnd receiving over a billion views on TikTok in 2020.
The growth of D&D over the past few years has been staggering to behold. D&D has caught the imagination of the general public in ways that old-school fans could never have expected. The fact that the game continues to grow, even during the lockdown periods of the past year, is a huge achievement. The fact that new players are slowly able to meet up and experience the game in person, coupled with D&D’s return to the world of video games, and the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie, means that the sky’s the limit for the world’s most famous tabletop game.
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